EU LOOKS FOR MONEY TO FUND EUROPEAN BROADBAND EXPANSION
June 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THIS year could be the year when the European Union (EU) shows that it has the money and the strategy to increase EU broadband capacity to a level allowing new Internet-based technologies to thrive. It is a key goal of its much-lauded EU Digital Agenda, bringing basic broadband to all EU citizens by 2013 and ensuring that, by 2020, they have access to much higher internet speeds of above 30 Mbps and that half or more of European households subscribe to Internet connections above 100 Mbps. With the onset of highly popular tablets browsing via ...
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